At 12:44 PM 6/4/01 -0600, Judy [1161(a)msn.com] wrote:
I would like to know what happened to Kecksville in Mar(t)in County?
Is it
part of Crane Naval?
"Kecksville," "Keck's Church," and "Burns City" are
essentially the same
community, though the former two were not precisely at the same location as
what is now known as Burns City. As far as I know, the original "Keck's
Church" was a bit north of the present-day Burns City, perhaps a fraction
of a mile, perhaps a bit more.
Burns City is midway down the western edge of the Crane Naval Weapons
Center, and just outside the boundary. In an 1876 Atlas and on an 1854 map,
Kecksville is shown at the bottom of grid square 32 in the extreme
southwest corner of McCameron Twp. near where the boundary between Daviess
and Martin Co. runs east/west. On my 1999 Rand-McNally atlas, Burns City
seems to share the same location, but the grid squares are not shown. The
location is about 6 miles as the crow flies east southeast of Odon.
John Ragle